PBs at Watford

Sunday 12 June 2011

Four Cardiff athletes, all coached by James Thie, produced personal best performances during the BMC Nike Grand Prix at Watford yesterday, 11th June.

Chris Discombe set a 3000m steeplechase best of 8:57.53, Adam Bitchell (pictured, and who is a student at UWIC) ran the 5000m in 13:57.61 (which is also inside the qualifying time for the European U23 championships) and Ieuan Thomas set a 1500m pb of 3:47.93. Charlotte Arter set her pb of 4:24.19 in the women's 1500m.

Other performances by Cardiff athletes at the meeting included Michael Kershaw's run the 1500m in 3:53.13 and Bethan Strange's 800m in 2:15.69.

In the 800m men's A race, Gareth Warburton came second in 1:47.74 whereas Joe Thomas had an off day, coming 9th in 1:50.25.